An entire week of snow days for most students in Greater Cincinnati meant no class and no food for a lot of kids who are on free or reduced lunches.

However, people have stepped up to make sure kids who are considered chronically hungry are getting food for the weekend.

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Jen Walters, with the organization Community Matters, said not having that consistent food throughout the entire week and going into the weekend without a single school day is really critical, and we have to find a way to get people access to food.

The Freestore Food Bank teamed up with Community Matters to distribute bags filled with various healthy food items to children who attend Oyler School.

The food bags are called power packs and would normally be given out at school if school was in session.

“We're using an innovative approach to working with our community partners to get the food out to the kids who otherwise wouldn't have the food with them,” Kurt Reiber, with the Freestore Foodbank, said.

Officials said an automated call from the school and word of mouth got the message out to people in the neighborhood that food was being distributed at the Community Matters building.

Floyd Colwell has family members who attend Oyler. He said it helps out a lot, because many people in the neighborhood don’t have anything to eat.

Another group of volunteers went door to door passing out food.

According to the Freestore Foodbank, 78 percent of the kids in the agency's 20 county service area receive a free or reduced meal, which represents about 145,000 students.